Cancel dragging of a sortable item

Question

An absolutely common sortable case:

  
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Answer 1

Sortable has a "cancel" capability invoked using sortable('cancel').

From the docs: "Cancels a change in the current sortable and reverts it to the state prior to when the current sort was started." See http://api.jqueryui.com/sortable/#method-cancel.

Example usage:

$("#sortable").sortable({
  stop: function(e, ui) {
    if ("I need to cancel this") {
      $(ui.sender).sortable('cancel');
    }
  }
});